Thursday, 18 April 2013

THE SULUKS’ FIGHT AGAINST MUSA?

ILLEGAL....Knowing Umno's
illegal accruing of its 'fixed deposit', PKR had pledged that all illegal
immigrants in Sabah would gets permanent resident status if it won the polls.

By
: SELVARAJA SOMIAH

OPPOSITION
Leader Anwar Ibrahim’s shady past in Sabah has caught up with him in the
present to haunt his future. It’s an open secret in Sabah that Anwar, the de
facto PKR chief, was among the chief architects responsible for placing illegal
immigrants, mainly drawn from Suluk Filipinos, on the electoral rolls.

Anwar
was at that time the Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister. Which is why
calls are getting louder in Sabah for Anwar to be called in as witness to the
ongoing RCI (Royal Commission of Inquiry) on illegal immigrants in the state.

Don’t
forget: PKR has even pledged that illegal immigrants in Sabah would all be
given permanent residency status should the opposition alliance seize the reins
of power in Sabah.

Anwar
and the Suluk Filipinos are not too happy that Sabah Chief Minister Musa Aman
had convinced Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and mobilised Sabah Umno to pledge
support for the RCI.

More
alarm bells went off when Foreign Minister Anifah Aman had unexpectedly lashed
out publicly against attempts by a special unit within the National
Registration Department (NRD) in Putrajaya to issue birth certificates and
MyKads to 40,000 people in Semporna alone.

Anifah
doubted that there could be that many people in one district alone without
personal Malaysian documents.

But
the truth is, Semporna is undoubtedly infested with illegal immigrants,
especially Suluk from the nearby Sulu Archipelago in the Philippines.

‘Secret
weapon’

Anifah’s
outburst on Semporna, coming on top of his brother’s public support for the
RCI, was the last straw for the Suluk Filipinos.

Led
by their “godfather”, they decided that the Aman brothers would have to go
sooner rather than later.

Their
“secret weapon” was to recycle the Michael Chia tale of being nabbed with S$16
million (RM44 million) at the Hong Kong International Airport. Chia is
reportedly “close” to Musa.

But
the truth is Chia is a bosom-buddy to Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz, Minister in the
Prime Minister’s Department. So close is Chia that he had even given Nazri’s
son a Hummer SUV, as a gift of sorts.

The
story, as it now transpires, is that Chia was never caught at the Hong Kong
International Airport with bag load of foreign currency.

What
happened was that Chia’s hotel room in Hong Kong was raided by the Hong Kong
authorities, acting on a tip-off which came from an estranged business partner
of Chia, now at loggerheads.

In
that hotel raid, the Hong Kong authorities found in Chia’s room S$16 million
(RM44 million).

The
Hong Kong case has since been closed but PKR and Musa’s Suluk Filipino
political enemies do not want to cease and desist.

They
are doggedly flogging the Hong Kong case in various recycled versions and
liberally dishing them around among the alternative media.

A
new spin from both PKR and the Suluk Filipinos is that Attorney-General Abdul
Gani Patail is related to Musa through his wife.